IT staff and hardware

Request

1) If your IT is not totally Outsourced then how many individual Staff – NOT whole/full time equivalents – are employed within your IT Department?

2) To which Company or Companies are the following areas of IT Outsourced:

Infrastructure?

Desktops/Laptops/Thin Clients?

Systems Development / Applications Management?

(Can you please answer the questions 3 to 9, even if your IT is Outsourced)3) How many Desktops are in use?

4) How many Laptops are in use?

5) How many Thin Clients are in use?

6) Which Server Platform(s) and Operating System(s) do you use?

7) How many Physical Servers are in use?

8) How many Virtual Servers are in use?

9) What is the name and job title of the most senior person in IT?

Response

1) SOAS does not have an IT department. It has a Library & Information Services Directorate, within which there are Information Systems (IS) and Customer Services departments. These departments carry out tasks that might be considered to fall within the traditional remit of an IT department. There is also a multi-media and print services department of 11 staff which similarly carries out some tasks that could be seen as IT. Within IS there are 14 people and 4 unfilled vacancies. There are approximately 5 staff within Customer Services with a specific IT remit.